Little Construction Expected This Week On County`s Roads

February 17, 1985

If you`re going to be on the road during the long holiday weekend, you should have uninterrupted driving. Construction will be at a minimum this week.

The regrading of Southeast 23rd Avenue and the digging of drainage ditches between U.S. 1 and Seacrest Boulevard in Boynton Beach will continue to slow traffic for at least another week, according to Tom Clark, city engineer.

Curb and gutter improvements will be starting in a community development project that has been under construction in the Cherry Hills area of Boynton Beach for months.

The area on Northwest 13th and 14th avenues near Third Street, in the Cherry Hills area, was given HUD funds for road improvements and landscaping in October. The two streets only have one lane each open now.

In Delray Beach, Northwest 5th Street from Atlantic Avenue to Northwest 2nd Street still is torn up for reconstruction. It is closed to all but local traffic.

City engineers said work on the street won`t be completed for another couple of months.

Those driving in the area under construction will notice new traffic signals at Northwest 5th and Atlantic avenues. Traffic engineers said flagmen would reduce the traffic in that area of Atlantic to one westbound lane early this weekend.

Drivers in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens also will notice some new lights.

At 45th Street and Village Boulevard, West Palm Beach, a new traffic signal will be turned on within a week or two, according to Charles Cantrell of county traffic operations.

At PBA Boulevard and Alternate A1A, he said, the state just opened dual left turn lanes and signals.